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Open Educational Resources:Open Educational Resources:Stimulating Global Knowledge SharingStimulating Global Knowledge Sharing
Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. CasserlyMarshall S. Smith and Catherine M. CasserlySeptember 27, 2005September 27, 2005
The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationThe William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Goals for MeetingGoals for Meeting
Hewlett’s work and state of the OER Hewlett’s work and state of the OER FieldField
Input on multiple OER portalsInput on multiple OER portals Discuss disseminationDiscuss dissemination Discuss sustainabilityDiscuss sustainability Build synergyBuild synergy
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Agenda for DayAgenda for Day
8.00 Introductions and General Overview 8.15 Hewlett Strategy - State of the Field 9.45 Break 10.00 Moving Beyond the Horizon 11.00 Reflections on the Strategy 11.30 OER and Google Noon Lunch 1.00 Windows to OER: Portal Creation 2.00 Challenges to Disseminating OER 2.50 Charge for the Afternoon 3.30 Hike in the Logan Hills 7.00 Hamiltons – Dinner and Discussion
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Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro MatsuuraMatsuura
“ “If the world community’s special If the world community’s special concern is to overcome the digital concern is to overcome the digital divide in order to build knowledge divide in order to build knowledge societies, then this is precisely what societies, then this is precisely what UNESCO is all about. One of our core UNESCO is all about. One of our core missions is to promote the free missions is to promote the free exchange of ideas and knowledge; to exchange of ideas and knowledge; to maintain, increase and disseminate maintain, increase and disseminate knowledge through our work in knowledge through our work in education, the sciences, culture and education, the sciences, culture and communication.”communication.”
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Open Educational Content Inspired By:
Belief that knowledge and education are common goods
Belief that open educational content will advance human knowledge, creativity, and social welfare
Open Source software movement
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Open Educational ResourcesOpen Educational Resources
• High quality digitized materials High quality digitized materials
• Freely available on the web for use and re-Freely available on the web for use and re-useuse
• Focused on teaching, learning and Focused on teaching, learning and research research
• Tools for creating, using, re-using and Tools for creating, using, re-using and sharingsharing
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Which Path?Which Path?
MIT OCW
K-12 Research
Early 2001
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Theory of ChangeTheory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS TO
KNOWLEDGE
Remove Barriers
High-Quality
Open Content
Understand and Stimulate
Use
High-Quality
Open Content
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Open Content: OpenCourseWareOpen Content: OpenCourseWare
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Open Content: Full CoursesOpen Content: Full Courses
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Open Content: Library CollectionsOpen Content: Library Collections
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Open Content: Subject Area Open Content: Subject Area CollectionsCollections
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Open Content: General CollectionsOpen Content: General Collections
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Theory of ChangeTheory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS TO
KNOWLEDGE
Understand and Stimulate
Use
High-Quality Open Content
Remove Barriers
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Remove BarriersRemove Barriers
InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools
InnovationInnovation& Tools& Tools
- Sakai- EtudesNG- Connexions- Internet Archive- EduTools
Intellectual Intellectual PropertyProperty
Intellectual Intellectual PropertyProperty
- Creative Commons- Stanford U Copyright Determination
Culture & Culture & LanguageLanguageCulture & Culture & LanguageLanguage
- UNESCO- Chinese Open Resources for Education- African Virtual University
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Theory of ChangeTheory of Change
EQUALIZE ACCESS TO
KNOWLEDGE
Remove Barriers
High-Quality Open Content
Understand and Stimulate
Use
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Understand and Stimulate UseUnderstand and Stimulate Use
Virtual Virtual CommunitiesCommunities
Virtual Virtual CommunitiesCommunities
- UNESCO IIEP- Open Learning Support
Evaluation & Evaluation & ResearchResearch
Evaluation & Evaluation & ResearchResearch
- OECD OER study- Berkeley Digital Resource Study- African Virtual University Gap Analysis- ISKME Re-use Study
Stimulate Stimulate UseUse
Stimulate Stimulate UseUse - Chinese Open Resources for - Chinese Open Resources for
EducationEducation
- Development Gateway- Development Gateway- OER Exchange- OER Exchange
- Widernet
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Understand & Stimulate UseUnderstand & Stimulate Use
Organized and searchableOrganized and searchable What users wantWhat users want Culturally appropriateCulturally appropriate Disseminate widelyDisseminate widely
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Portal DevelopmentPortal Development
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Indicators of Strength Indicators of Strength of the OER Movementof the OER Movement
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OCW Movement — Emerging OCWs
Japan OCW Alliance
CORE
ParisTech
Universia
MIT, Tufts, Berkman
JHSPHUSU
Notre Dame
U Mich
FETP
DAU
UWC
AVU
• 36 institutions live OCW sites• 35 institutions early development• 11 countries and 6 languages
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Wikipedia – 1.4 billion hits dailyWikipedia – 1.4 billion hits daily
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Creative Commons Licenses - Growing Creative Commons Licenses - Growing AdoptionAdoption
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10,000,000
20,000,000
30,000,000
40,000,000
50,000,000
60,000,000
2002 2003 2004 2005
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Growing Global Networks Growing Global Networks
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Goals for 2006Goals for 2006
• Build out key collectionsBuild out key collections- OCW, full courses, content areas- OCW, full courses, content areas
• Expand use and usefulnessExpand use and usefulness- Portals, distribution sites, translations, Portals, distribution sites, translations,
partners, researchpartners, research• Continue building capacityContinue building capacity
- IP, community tools - IP, community tools • Sustainability – a dilemmaSustainability – a dilemma